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Thomas J. Jolly (Breckinridge County, Kentucky, farmer)

b. 1828-01-10

Breckinridge County, Kentucky, farmer. Breckinridge County native. Son of Nelson Jolly, Jr. and Barbara Jolly. Married to Amanda L. Jordan Jolly on June 21, 1853. Father of Sarah "Sallie" A. Jolly, Robert M. Jolly, and William C. Jolly. Member of the Methodist Church. Member of the Whig Party. Farm hand in Breckinridge County in 1847. Cooper in Breckinridge County. Deputy sheriff of Breckinridge County from 1849 to 1855 and 1863 to 1864. Member of the Republican Party. Farmer in Breckinridge County in 1860. Owned five enslaved persons in 1860. Sheriff of Breckinridge County from 1865 to 1866.

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Race
White

Bibliography

W. H. Perrin, J. H. Battle, and G. C. Kniffin, Kentucky: A History of the State (Louisville: F. A. Battey and Company, 1887), 1066. Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Breckinridge County, District 1, p. 139. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Breckinridge County, District 1, p. 22. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Breckinridge County, District 1, p. 2. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Breckinridge County, Bewleyville, p. 25.

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Jolly, Thomas J.. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32215033 (November 12, 2026).

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